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The Novell Controls for ActiveX and Visual Basic:
Directories (Trees) and Entries
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This lesson is the third installment in a series on NDS (Novell Directory Services) programming with Visual Basic, using the Novell Controls for ActiveX. Previous lessons covered setting up your development environment ("Programming with the Novell Controls for ActiveX and Visual Basic: Getting Started") and logging in to NDS from a VB program ("The Novell Controls for ActiveX and Visual Basic: Logging In").

In this lesson, we (finally) start reading data from fields in the NDS database. The first part of the lesson contains an overview of NDS terms and concepts. If you have experience administering or using NDS, you may still want to read this part, because ActiveX uses different terms than you may have encountered before (for example, what most NDS documentation refers to as attributes are called fields in the ActiveX world). The second part of the article tells, step-by-step, how to write a VB program that reads the value of a specified field in an NDS entry.

 

Objective Using this lesson as a guide, a Visual Basic programmer will be able to use the Session control to log in to an NDS directory.
Prerequisites Entry-level Visual Basic programming skills, a DeveloperNet subscription (Electronic Level subscription available free at http://developer.novell.com).
Required Items See "Required Setup."
Optional Items None.
Required Setup A NetWare 4 or 5 server, a Win32 workstation (Windows 95/98/NT) with installed software: the appropriate Novell Client for the operating system, Microsoft Visual Basic or Visual Studio, and the Novell Controls for ActiveX.
Development Environment The procedures discussed in this lesson were tested using a 200 MHZ Pentium-based workstation with 64 MB RAM, running Windows NT 4.0, a NetWare 4.11 file server, the NetWare Client for NT 4.60, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, and the Novell Controls for ActiveX 1/25/99.


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